faoi deara

• fá dear
• fé ndear
• fé ndeár
• fé ndeara

From Old Irish fo·dera (verb), earlier fo·fera (“prepares, provides, causes”), reinterpreted as a prepositional phrase using fo (modern Irish faoi).

• IPA^(key): /fˠiːˈdʲaɾˠə/
• (Aran) IPA^(key): /fˠiːˈdʲaɾʲə/ (as if spelled faoi deaire, probably due to influence from aire (“attention, notice”))

faoi deara

1. causing, being the cause

   Is é faoi deara dom labhairt leat go gcuirim spéis i d’obair.

   What causes me to speak to you is that I am interested in your work.

   Tú féin faoi deara é.

   You are the cause of it yourself; you have brought it on yourself.

   Éad faoi deara a lán de. ― Jealousy has a lot to do with it.

   Is é Seán faoi deara é seo. ― This is Seán’s doing; this is due to Seán.

• cuir faoi deara (“to cause”)
• tabhair faoi deara (“to notice”)

• C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “fo·fera”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN
• “deara” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
• Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 27.
• Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 257.
• "deara" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.